How to Install Leed on OpenBSD

Leed is an open-source RSS aggregator that allows you to subscribe to RSS and Atom feeds. In this tutorial, we will look at the steps to install Leed on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before installing Leed, ensure you have the following prerequisites:

• A computer running OpenBSD.
• A web server installed on OpenBSD.

Step 1 - Install Dependencies

To get started with the installation of Leed, you need to install the following software packages:

$ sudo pkg_add php php-curl php-pdo php-sqlite3 sqlite

Step 2 - Download Leed Source Code

Next, you need to download the Leed source code from the official GitHub repository:

$ git clone https://github.com/LeedRSS/Leed.git /var/www/leed

Step 3 - Set Permissions

After downloading the Leed source code, you need to set the appropriate file permissions on the /var/www/leed directory:

$ sudo chown -R www:www /var/www/leed
$ sudo chmod -R 775 /var/www/leed

Step 4 - Create a Database

Next, you need to create a Leed database. To do this, you can use the following command:

$ sudo sqlite3 /var/www/leed/data/data.sqlite < /var/www/leed/data/install/database/leed.sql

Step 5 - Configure Leed

After creating the database, go to the /var/www/leed/config directory and create a copy of the config.default.php file:

$ cd /var/www/leed/config
$ cp config.default.php config.php

Then, open the config.php file and make the following changes:

define('BASEPATH', '');
define('FULL_URL', 'http://localhost/leed');
define('BYPASS_LOGIN', 1); // set to 0 to enable login
define('ERROR_LOG', ''); // path to error_log file
define('DEBUG_MODE', false); // set to true to enable debug mode
define('DB_TYPE', 'sqlite');
define('DB_HOST', '');
define('DB_NAME', '/var/www/leed/data/data.sqlite');
define('DB_USER', '');
define('DB_PASS', '');

Step 6 - Run Leed

Finally, start your web server and browse to http://localhost/leed to start using Leed.

Conclusion

In this tutorial, we have shown you how to install Leed on OpenBSD. With Leed, you can now easily subscribe to your favorite RSS and Atom feeds.